Macrochlamys infans (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)

Marzuki, Mohammad Effendi bin, Liew, Thor-Seng & Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, 2021, Land snails and slugs of Bau limestone hills, Sarawak (Malaysia, Borneo), with the descriptions of 13 new species, ZooKeys 1035, pp. 1-113 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1035.60843

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ED19022E-A170-4DB7-9587-FEFE15D07854

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A77327E4-646C-580D-A0A9-B440678468FC

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scientific name

Macrochlamys infans (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)
status

 

Macrochlamys infans (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) Figure 22C View Figure 22

Helix infans L. Pfeiffer, 1854a: 290.

Type locality.

"Sarawak, Borneo".

Material examined.

Gunung Batu: ME 1858, ME 2854.

Distribution in Borneo.

Sarawak: Kuching Division. Labuan: Endemic to Borneo.

Remarks.

Only dry shells specimens were found during the surveys. It differs from Macrochlamys tersa (Issel, 1874) by having a white shell without spiral sculpture or only with very fine spiral grooves. The taxonomic status and occurrence of M. infans in Java and Bali were discussed in Vermeulen (1996).